Nintendo customer service sucks.
I had to ask the cust rep 3 times to get them to ship my replacement ac adapter faster. They should have overnighted the damn thing to me since I have a $250 paper weight and some games that are also paper weights till the new adapter comes in.

They wanted to ship me an ac adapter with 3-8 day shipping which I refused. I assume he asks his manager then comes back with 3-5 days.... I ask for even faster shipping and he comes back with 2-3 days and says "this is a one time exception." Shit I better not need another exception to make my wii work out of the box after waiting 11 hours in line for the damn thing. The manager or whoever he had to confirm with should have offered to send it asap to begin with...

My sensor bar isn't as flat as it should be. If I use the stand and place it below the TV it'll work alright, but if placed above the TC it is not flat enough to stick on both sides. Is this a common thing, or should I try to exchange it when Wiis are more readily available?

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SpazX
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My sensor bar isn't as flat as it should be. If I use the stand and place it below the TV it'll work alright, but if placed above the TC it is not flat enough to stick on both sides. Is this a common thing, or should I try to exchange it when Wiis are more readily available?

If it's really a problem you can always just order another sensor bar, they're $10 at the nintendo store.

I had problems getting into the Wii store too. I kept getting an error message saying it couldn't find a connection when I had just connected. I restarted my computer (connected to my router) and it then worked fine for a few minutes before crapping out again eventually. I was able to dl Donkey Kong and Zelda tho...Zelda took what seemed like forever to dl.

I had problems getting into the Wii store too. I kept getting an error message saying it couldn't find a connection when I had just connected. I restarted my computer (connected to my router) and it then worked fine for a few minutes before crapping out again eventually. I was able to dl Donkey Kong and Zelda tho...Zelda took what seemed like forever to dl.

Sounds to me like it could just be too much traffic...but I really have no idea. I had no problem at 3 this morning...

#20
Zmonkay
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If anyone is having trouble with the Wiimote detecting where they are pointing all the time, try this:

Bar on top of TV, sensitivity 5.

When you go to adjust sensitivity, it says to do it till there are only 2 dots...screw that. I find that it works MUCH better all the way at 5. On 2, where I was getting 2 dots, it had a large dead zone outside of the screen and I needed to have the wiimote raised up, but on 5, it pretty much detects where I'm pointing it regardless of how high I'm holding the wiimote.

For the people having problems connecting to the network, make sure you are not blocking the MAC address with the router. Also may want to try taking the security off just to see if it connects, and if it does, enable it again and test. Hopefully this can narrow down some of the problems.

If anyone is having trouble with the Wiimote detecting where they are pointing all the time, try this:

Bar on top of TV, sensitivity 5.

When you go to adjust sensitivity, it says to do it till there are only 2 dots...screw that. I find that it works MUCH better all the way at 5. On 2, where I was getting 2 dots, it had a large dead zone outside of the screen and I needed to have the wiimote raised up, but on 5, it pretty much detects where I'm pointing it regardless of how high I'm holding the wiimote.

Just a suggestion.

Where do you control the sensitivity? I read most of the Wii's documentation and I experimented with most menus and never saw this. I know Zelda has its own in-game calibration, so is this an in-game settings or what?

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My only issue so far is some serious jaggies in the games (Wii Sports, Rayman and Zelda). I'm running component cables and in 480p but especially in Zelda, it's jaggy as hell. Anyone else notice this? I popped in the first Metroid Prime and everything was smooth as butter. Did I miss a setting on Zelda or what?
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It's the WRT54G I think. I haven't tried connecting my DS yet. My computer connects to it though even though the signal is generally weak. I need a tech guy to come to my house and make sure everything is set up and working properly. I could have faulty equipment and not even know it.

My only issue so far is some serious jaggies in the games (Wii Sports, Rayman and Zelda). I'm running component cables and in 480p but especially in Zelda, it's jaggy as hell. Anyone else notice this? I popped in the first Metroid Prime and everything was smooth as butter. Did I miss a setting on Zelda or what?-G

Me too. Not sure what the problem is either. Pikmin on my Gamecube and God of War on the PS2 both look amazing in progressive scan.

It's the WRT54G I think. I haven't tried connecting my DS yet. My computer connects to it though even though the signal is generally weak. I need a tech guy to come to my house and make sure everything is set up and working properly. I could have faulty equipment and not even know it.

Just a thought, yo umight need a firmware upgrade. Flip your router over and on the labelm it should say WRT54g ver. X where X is your version number. Go here and find your model.

Login to your router via a webbrowser and at the top right it should say what firmware version you have. Looking through the firmware updates, there's patches that have been released after yours got loaded to fix problems with "game servers" which may very well fix your problem.

If you need more help, let me know, or I'd be happy to walk you through it via AIM or something. It's pretty painless to upgrade.

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